furrykef wrote:Actually, the bottom part of the right half of 様 is different from 水, because 水 is four strokes, whereas that part of 様 is five (the left part is divided into two strokes, the second of which is written bottom-to-top). But yeah, it still certainly doesn't look like that.

- Kef

Like 求!

I've always written 様 like 水 (with one continuous vertical line, of course)... Doubt anyone has noticed. Writing that one stroke bottom-to-top sounds like a chore

furrykef wrote:Actually, the bottom part of the right half of 様 is different from 水, because 水 is four strokes, whereas that part of 様 is five (the left part is divided into two strokes, the second of which is written bottom-to-top). But yeah, it still certainly doesn't look like that.

- Kef

Like 求!

I've always written 様 like 水 (with one continuous vertical line, of course)... Doubt anyone has noticed. Writing that one stroke bottom-to-top sounds like a chore

I write the right part of 様 as 5 strokes, but it's hard to explain the strokes without actually drawing it out. The ki-hen is only 3 or sometimes 2; I'm glad that other people don't have to read my notes.

This is another grass script of 様 that is most common, but I have seen that image keatonatron さん gave a few times before as a おっさん style. We can see other ones of 教育漢字（around 1000 basic kanji） here. Have fun!